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Nosetime · 10-08-2017, 06:21 PM

Well, my plans to just "run it" on my '29 motor with unknown history have finally come to a more sensible plan. My dad and I got it running and it runs and sounds great, thanks to this board! Guy I bought it from found it in a barn in Riverside , Ca and just wanted the body for a hotrod..so I bought the rest. Did all the standard "de-mothball an old engine stuff" and feel really lucky to have a solid, what appears to be, rebuilt motor. I decided to pull it and check the mains, rods and put a head on it, paint block, etc... I had soaked the block a few days with Evaporust, but today finally got the Head off (after 5 hrs of work ) and find all the water passages clogged with who the hell knows what? Is it from a mouse or something, there is weird stuff in there and what should I do to flush it out? Plastic, wood, rust, etc..

1crosscut · 10-08-2017, 07:16 PM

Well you can get a flexible cable such as an old speedometer cable etc... pieces of wire or such fiddle around in there and try to break as much loose as you can with the head off. Use an air hose and blow it out. Be sure to cover the cylinders so crud doesn't get in them.
Put the head back on and flush it out with water by putting a hose in the side inlet full blast along with air from the compressor. Prepare for a lot of water to blast out of the top outlet.

BILL WILLIAMSON · 10-08-2017, 09:30 PM

A Guy drained & stored his A, left the cap OFF & mice filled the block, head, & radiator tank, with cotton from an Old Couch!
Bill W.

1931 flamingo · 10-09-2017, 11:16 AM

Put the head back on and do the evaporust again for a much longer time and see what dissolves. JMO
Paul in CT

glenn in camino · 10-09-2017, 08:09 PM

The Evapo Rust in my 31 sport coupe created little about ( .060 granules ) that clogged up the overflow tube. The radiator started overflowing like the block was cracked. I took I took it all apart and found that the block was not cracked. It was just that the radiator overflow tube was clogged. I had the radiator boiled and rodded out and I'm putting it back together now.

100IH · 10-10-2017, 12:43 PM

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If the over flow tube gets plugged after chemical or mechanical cleaning, the same granules are in the radiator tubes. The tubes are smaller and get trapped more easily.
The cleaning processes never remove all impacted rust. More junk will loosen up while driving. That is why I would use a Gano filter in the upper hose to catch the rust for at least a few hundred miles. Access is limited in the coolant jackets.

Brendan · 10-11-2017, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Nosetime

Well, my plans to just "run it" on my '29 motor with unknown history have finally come to a more sensible plan. My dad and I got it running and it runs and sounds great, thanks to this board! Guy I bought it from found it in a barn in Riverside , Ca and just wanted the body for a hotrod..so I bought the rest. Did all the standard "de-mothball an old engine stuff" and feel really lucky to have a solid, what appears to be, rebuilt motor. I decided to pull it and check the mains, rods and put a head on it, paint block, etc... I had soaked the block a few days with Evaporust, but today finally got the Head off (after 5 hrs of work ) and find all the water passages clogged with who the hell knows what? Is it from a mouse or something, there is weird stuff in there and what should I do to flush it out? Plastic, wood, rust, etc..

you are lucky to get the head off in 5 hr. it took me 3 weeks to get it off on a running car

10-08-2017, 06:21 PM	#1
Nosetime Senior Member Join Date: May 2017 Location: Huntington Beach, Calif Posts: 330	Dilemma in my 29 motor resurection Well, my plans to just "run it" on my '29 motor with unknown history have finally come to a more sensible plan. My dad and I got it running and it runs and sounds great, thanks to this board! Guy I bought it from found it in a barn in Riverside , Ca and just wanted the body for a hotrod..so I bought the rest. Did all the standard "de-mothball an old engine stuff" and feel really lucky to have a solid, what appears to be, rebuilt motor. I decided to pull it and check the mains, rods and put a head on it, paint block, etc... I had soaked the block a few days with Evaporust, but today finally got the Head off (after 5 hrs of work ) and find all the water passages clogged with who the hell knows what? Is it from a mouse or something, there is weird stuff in there and what should I do to flush it out? Plastic, wood, rust, etc..

10-08-2017, 07:16 PM	#2
1crosscut Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Posts: 1,909	Re: Dilemma in my 29 motor resurection Well you can get a flexible cable such as an old speedometer cable etc... pieces of wire or such fiddle around in there and try to break as much loose as you can with the head off. Use an air hose and blow it out. Be sure to cover the cylinders so crud doesn't get in them. Put the head back on and flush it out with water by putting a hose in the side inlet full blast along with air from the compressor. Prepare for a lot of water to blast out of the top outlet. __________________ Dave / Lincoln Nebraska

10-08-2017, 09:30 PM	#3
BILL WILLIAMSON Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: FRESNO, CA Posts: 12,560	Re: Dilemma in my 29 motor resurection A Guy drained & stored his A, left the cap OFF & mice filled the block, head, & radiator tank, with cotton from an Old Couch! Bill W. __________________ "THE ASSISTANT GURU OF STUFF"

10-09-2017, 11:16 AM	#4
1931 flamingo Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: new britain,ct 06052 Posts: 9,390	Re: Dilemma in my 29 motor resurection Put the head back on and do the evaporust again for a much longer time and see what dissolves. JMO Paul in CT

10-09-2017, 08:09 PM	#5
glenn in camino Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Camino, CA. Posts: 3,086	Re: Dilemma in my 29 motor resurection The Evapo Rust in my 31 sport coupe created little about ( .060 granules ) that clogged up the overflow tube. The radiator started overflowing like the block was cracked. I took I took it all apart and found that the block was not cracked. It was just that the radiator overflow tube was clogged. I had the radiator boiled and rodded out and I'm putting it back together now.

10-10-2017, 12:43 PM	#6
100IH Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: SW Idaho Posts: 970	Re: Dilemma in my 29 motor resurection Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) If the over flow tube gets plugged after chemical or mechanical cleaning, the same granules are in the radiator tubes. The tubes are smaller and get trapped more easily. The cleaning processes never remove all impacted rust. More junk will loosen up while driving. That is why I would use a Gano filter in the upper hose to catch the rust for at least a few hundred miles. Access is limited in the coolant jackets.